“The New American Patriot will be neither left nor right, just a freeman fighting for liberty. New alliances will form between those who have in the past thought of themselves as 'right-wingers,' conservatives and patriots with many people who have thought of themselves as 'left-wingers,' progressives, or just 'liberal.'…Soon, there will be millions in this country of every political persuasion confronting the police state on streets throughout America….Wake up and smell the tear gas. Freedom is calling its sons and daughters.

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A protest with ows and militias is a good idea if we could agree on what we are protesting before hand. This would show the gov the issues at hand reflect more then the left. The only thing we need to make sure of is that we have a message everyone agrees on and we don't go off topic.

Well Coolio, you haven't come back and made any comments. No suggestions of issues we might have in common? We are all suffering from the rape of the U.S. Constitution and the assault on the middle class. But you have nothing further to say.

It seems likely that you are a provocateur. If so tell your bosses in the NYPD that you are a failure and should be fired.

The most important and effective methods to reform the government involve doing the best we can to educate people about the issues and to get them active without scaring them off. "Fighting for Democracy" in the literal sense should only be done as a last resort if it is necessary at all and presumably as a matter of self defense if the government uses violent oppression to crush dissent.. It is far more important to "Educate for Democracy." In the past when revolutions have been based on violence they have generally put the most violent in power and led to an exchange of one tyrant for another.

Are not the real patriots working at wall mart for $7.50 an hour, and all middle class Americans who pay the political tyrants and their rich handlers just sell outs, speaking a good game but not doing what they are supposed to do?

The Walmart employees are unknowing accomplices of corporate America. Cooperating with tyranny by accepting sub standard wages. So are those who shop there.

Our protest needs to be redirected toward education. If the people don't understand that they are being robbed, both low and middle class, they will never join us in the fight to overthrow the corporate state.

I agree with the education part. But what's really sad about the whole predicament is that the low income workers, who I try and convince to fight back, mostly believe that I have been brainwashed. Supposedly, the big, bad university has turned me into a zombie. lol

I would doubt that MLK supported any violent tactics in Rhodesia and South Africa. Have any facts to back up your claim?

And Ghandi's quote in context.

"I used to issue leaflets asking people to enlist as recruits. One of the arguments I had used was distasteful to the Commissioner: 'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.' The Commissioner referred to this and said that he appreciated my presence in the conference in spite of the differences between us. And I had to justify my standpoint as courteously as I could."

This was in regard to the Indian Arms act of 1878 which prohibited most Indians from owning guns. Gandhi didn't view arms as a lever to overthrow a foreign enemy, but as a tool of self defense.